New Patient Registration

If you wish to register with this practice you will need to bring your medical card into the surgery. This will need to be signed inside. If you are unable to find your medical card, we will supply you with a registration form to complete.

From then on, you will be registered with this practice and your medical records can than be requested from you previous doctor.

Because this can take some time, you will be offered a new patient medical with one of our Practice Nurses. She will take details of relevant medical history that your new doctor will need to be aware of any repeat medication you are taking.

Please note that you will not be able to request repeat medication until you have seen either the nurse or the doctor.

You will also be given a practice leaflet, which has our telephone numbers and details of the surgery times and clinics at the surgery

Medical treatment is available from the date of registration. Please contact reception for further information.

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.

If you wish to pre-register click on the link below to open the form. When you have completed all of the details, click on the "Send" button to mail your form to us. When you visit the surgery for the first time you will be asked to sign the form to confirm that the details are correct. We also need you to bring along 2 forms of identification before we can register you. One needs to be photo id and the other confirming your address. PLEASE NOTE - WE ARE UNABLE TO REGISTER YOU UNTIL WE HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY FORMS COMPLETED.

When you register you will also be asked to fill out a medical questionnaire. This is because it can take a considerable time for us to receive your medical records. There is an online version of this file too, which you may fill out and send or bring to us. When you come to the surgery you will be asked to sign this form to confirm that the details are correct.

Note that by sending the form you will be transmitting information about your self across the Internet and although every effort is made to keep this information secure, no guarantee can be offered in this respect.

Alternatively you may print off a registration form, fill it out and bring it in with you to the practice.

Non-English Speakers

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.

Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE LEAFLETS CAN STILL BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING ON THE MESSAGE 'THIS ITEM HAS BEEN ARCHIVED'

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the area where you are already registered.

GP2GP

The practice is now using an electronic facility which can allow the medical record of patients registering with this practice to be transferred safely and quickly from their previous GP. Similarly, if you register with another GP, your medical record would be transferred electronically to your new GP. At the moment, this can only happen between GP Practices that are using this facility.

This will not affect how you register with the practice but means that if your previous GP also used GP2GP, your consultations and medications will be available for your new GP to access from the date your register with our practice. Your paper medical record folder will still be sent to your new Doctor as it is now.